We Have with Us Your Sky - Melanie Hubbard

Praise for We Have With Us Your Sky

Melanie Hubbard's terse short-lined poems create a staccato music of wit and reference. With nods to Mary Shelley, Columbus, Chaos theory, Foucault, John Locke, Stanley Fish, Margaret Fuller, We Have With Us Your Sky creates a "vast metaphysical plot" constructed of broken fragments of literature and culture, from a life spent reading in the "harm garden." This book is tough and smart, badass, feminist and punning. Hubbard knows what "they want her to know," and she knows more. These poems make me sit up and listen, alert and more alive now: "A hard joy."

~ JULIE CARR

Melanie Hubbard's some kind of word wizard. She shows up with language aglow and growing, expanding when it seems to begin tiny, shrinking when it begins colossally. This book's back-story is literary, its matter made up of quills, cant off, wiggin in, wunking out, paper endearments, book cemeteries, apologies from the universe, spiders and dust. Her poems, taken together, read like the story a dictionary would write were it so inclined.

~ DARA WIER